CHAMBER MUSIC IN SHEFFIELD AND DERBYSHIRE

Yolande Wrigley won an Exhibition to train at the Royal College of Music with Bernard Roberts. Thereafter her career developed in the London area where she gave many highly acclaimed recitals in the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall which were awarded by the Park Lane Group and the Kirckman Concert Society. She performed the John Ireland Piano Concerto and Mozart E flat Piano Concerto in the Queen Elizabeth Hall and recorded for National Television as well as regularly for the BBC radio. She joined her piano teacher, Bernard Roberts to form a two-piano duo and they performed the Rachmaninov Suite and the Grosse Fugue piano duet at the Wigmore Hall

In 1986 she and Bernard Gregor-Smith, the cellist in the Lindsay Quartet, formed a duo which was given special mention in "The Gramophone"  and very enthusiastic reviews in the National Press. They recorded cello sonatas for ASV such as the Rachmaninov, Prokoviev, Debussy, Frank Bridge, Bax, Shostakovich and Chopin and they performed in the acclaimed Sheffield Chamber Music Festival for nearly 20 years. They gave Summer Music Courses and master classes in Italy, Andalucia, France and in Sheffield, where she was  involved in the start of 4 strings88 keys .

Yolande taught at the Guildhall Junior School of Music when she left College and was Resident Pianist at Southampton University and Piano Tutor at Sheffield University for many years. She is currently involved with music examining for the LCM Thames Valley University Board. She is working internationally and travels extensively spending much time in Barcelona where she is to setting up Chamber Music weekends. 

Yolande must be one of the few international soloists who has also undertaken Alexander technique skills to enhance her  teaching after already having such a wide piano teaching experience . She has recently completed an Alexander Teacher Training Course and is very interested in using this newly acquired knowledge to broaden her piano teaching. She is especially interested in promoting ease and physical enjoyment at the instrument and has given a lot of thought to the connection between body tone and musical tone thereby finding one's individual voice. She offers an exciting approach for both professionals and amateurs to enhancing pianistic abilities at all stages.  

Her recent performances in Sheffield have included the Mozart piano concerto in A major K 414 for piano string quartet (with the Dante quartet), Chopin B flat minor Scherzo for piano, and  Brahms G minor piano quartet .

She has two sons, Max and the cellist, Benjamin Gregor-Smith

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